Pastoral Resources

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.

In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.